You will see – as if you didn’t already know! – from the rudimentary map on the home page that Russia is an enormous country. It str...
Read MoreWhen news emerged last week that Yevgeny Prigozhin was among the passengers on an aircraft that had ‘mysteriously’ crashed in Russia, late...
Read MoreMore than just a ball game
David Hockney, the Yorkshire-born artist who has probably become most famous for his depictions of places in California and France (especially as in N...
Read MoreOld works from a new perspective
And so to my third blog contemplating the dystopian fantasy that Donald Trump will regain the White House at the next US presidential election and tha...
Read MoreThe Trump/Putin threat may be in retreat?
My last blog under the ‘Fantasy’ banner was in March, headlined ‘Heading for the Putin/Trump show again?’ No one can say that ...
Read MoreWe are all caught up in Putin’s nightmare dream
Fantasies are not necessarily about good things. Dystopian fantasy is apparently a popular genre of science fiction. In Ukraine right now, the world i...
Read MoreHeading for the Putin/Trump show again?
What could be more normal over a bank holiday weekend in glorious weather, such as we have just enjoyed in London, than to enjoy an al fresco lunch. W...
Read MoreThe formerly pleasantly mundane remains out of reach
The photo on the home page is of Dominic Cummings, formerly supremo of the Vote Leave campaign which ended up being victorious in the 2016 EU referend...
Read MoreThe dream of doing exactly what you want…until it’s all gone wrong
Over 60 years ago, Vue magazine called Soho “the world’s wickedest square mile”. It wasn’t because of its all-round badness; r...
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